Regarding the two new members and the process of applications and inviting people
Tacticaled and Zockinator were both invited to the clan without needing to go through the application process that other users do. With this alone, I am fine, as some people have connections to clan members and their acceptance may not seem like a question that needs to be asked. However, I am a bit miffed that no one was consulted about their opinions on them before the invites were sent out, least of all the members of the admissions council. I understand that Zockinator was considering joining in much the same fashion as all of the earlier members before the clan took off (myself included). I know that our titles are pretty much just honorary and we hold no actual authority, but if we're going to skip around council a few days after it is implemented, then I don't see a reason for it to exist. In these two cases, I'm indifferent to them (I see Tacticaled reporting people a lot, and I think Zockinator hangs out in Discussion, but I may be wrong there), but if I absolutely hated one of them, I wouldn't have had a chance to say so and express my concerns about them joining, and then I would have to live with them or say I didn't like them publicly and possibly having an argument blow up.
I'm not good at conclusions, and I've said all I wanted to say.